beautiful. 234 -- in front of every poem, there's an end graph that comes from an iraq philosopher or poet. he's not only telling the world what happens through poetry, but he is also opening us up to another culture, and now he's reading his poems at west point. >> host: would you like to read a poem of brine turner's? >> guest: sure. i think he's wonderful. interest you interspersed this book with his poetry? >> guest: i have. i put a poem in front of -- well this one is about sexual abuse. i don't know, do you want that one? >> host: sure. >> guest: it's one in three females experience sexual assault while receiverring in the -- serving in the military. she hides under a deuce and a half this time, sleeping on a roll of foam, draped in netting, sand flies hover throughout the night, she sleeps under vehicle exhaust and heat dreaming of mortars buried beside her, three stripes painted on a cold tube, a rock hung below. it's you she's dreaming of. she'll dream of you for years to come. if she makes it out of this country alive, which she probably will, you will be the fire and the ho